Things have picked up, but this has still been a slower year for college football coach firings and hirings than the last few, which might be a little surprising, considering three of the biggest jobs (LSU, Oregon, and Texas) just changed hands.

College football recruiting has kicked into full gear the past few weeks and one of the more interesting decisions this month that could have a big impact on next season is finding out which school former Baylor quarterback Jarrett Stidham will be playing for in 2017. The signal-caller threw for 12 touchdowns and over 1,200 yards after taking over as the Bears […]

Chris Petersen chatted up Nick Saban while they waited to pose with the championship trophy, looking for any bit of insight that might help the College Football Playoff's rookie coach. The four playoff coaches were all together Thursday for a nationally televised awards show at the College Football Hall of Fame, not far from the stadium where Petersen's Washington Huskies will face Saban's defending national champions, the top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide, in the Peach Bowl semifinal game on New Year's Eve.

NCAA president Mark Emmert wants an eight-team playoff. NCAA president Mark Emmert said Wednesday that he’d like to increase the College Football Playoff field from four teams to eight in an effort to allow the champions of all five of the Power Five conferences to be represented. Emmert was speaking at the Learfield Sports Intercollegiate Athletics Forum in New York.

Brian Kelly’s team was 4-8 in 2016. Some Notre Dame fans are so unhappy with the state of the school’s football team that they bought a page in the student paper to express their dissatisfaction. The ad appears in the Dec. 7 issue of The Observer student paper. It blames Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick for failures and expresses a lack of confidence in coach Brian Kelly.

Major Applewhite served as Houston’s offensive coordinator for the past two seasons. Houston has promoted from within to fill its head-coaching vacancy. The school announced Friday morning it has promoted offensive coordinator Major Applewhite to head coach.

Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh and Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher got together for a joint press conference in Miami today as the two coaches prepare to face one another in the Orange Bowl on December 30. Harbaugh said he is looking forward to the matchup but seemed to be much more interested in […]

Lamar Jackson picked up another trophy for his marvelous season. On a red-carpet night in Atlanta, Jackson captured the Maxwell Award as the nation's top college player Thursday night and signaled himself as the clear favorite for the Heisman Trophy. Jackson already won the Walter Camp Award, also given to the best player.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has called for "zero tolerance" of child abuse in football and promised to look into ways the global governing body can do more to prevent it in the wake of the scandal sweeping the game in England. The English Football Association (FA) have launched a review into allegations of children being sexually abused at professional clubs, while British police are also investigating mounting accusations of pedophile activity. There must be zero tolerance from that point of view, from a football perspective, but also from a criminal perspective as well," Infantino told reporters in Singapore on Thursday.

Hugh Freeze‘s 2017 coaching staff at Ole Miss will have a decidedly different look than his 2016 version. In late November, the football program announced that defensive coordinator Dave Wommack has decided to retire from coaching at the end of year after nearly four decades in the profession. Nearly two weeks later, the rebels announced that […]

Former Baylor football coach Art Briles is suing three Baylor regents and the school’s vice president for administration and finance, alleging libel and a conspiracy to keep him from getting another job in coaching. Briles’ suit accuses the regents, specifically, of falsely telling media outlets the coach was aware of alleged gang rapes by Baylor players and didn’t properly report them. Deadspin published a copy of the entire suit, which also alleges school officials have conspired to keep Briles from getting another job as a coach.

The group of Heisman Trophy finalists that will convene in New York City this weekend is both large and largely unexpected. There is a minimum of three Heisman finalists every year, and if the voting is tightly bunched beyond the top three they will add more to the invite list. There are three quarterbacks (Louisville’s Lamar Jackson, Clemson’s Deshaun Watson and Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield).

Pending an unforeseen development, the college football coaching carousel has come to a quick and quiet halt in the Power Five conferences. When Oregon hired Willie Taggart Wednesday, it filled the last of just six vacancies among the 64 most desirable jobs in the sport. None of them came from another Power Five school.

Willie Taggart has become known for rebuilding programs at Western Kentucky and South Florida. Oregon announced Wednesday that it had hired Taggart to take over following a disappointing 4-8 season and the dismissal of coach Mark Helfrich. Taggart has been coach at USF for the past four seasons, guiding the team from a 2-10 record his first year to a 10-2 mark this year and a spot in the Birmingham Bowl.